Mikhail Gorbachev

Q: Has Mikhail Gorbachev won any awards?

Yes, Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 for his efforts to reduce nuclear weapons and promote international cooperation.

Q: What was Mikhail Gorbachev's first major political role?

Gorbachev's first major political role was as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which he assumed in 1985.

Q: What are some of Gorbachev's most significant contributions?

Gorbachev's most significant contributions include implementing reforms that led to the end of the Cold War and promoting greater openness and transparency in Soviet society.

Q: What is known about Gorbachev's personal life?

Gorbachev married Raisa Titarenko in 1953, and they had one daughter, Irina. Raisa passed away in 1999, and Gorbachev has been involved in various charitable activities since then.

Q: What is Mikhail Gorbachev's estimated net worth?

Mikhail Gorbachev's estimated net worth is around 10 million USD, primarily from his political career and various public speaking engagements.

Q: What are some notable films or documentaries featuring Gorbachev?

Notable films include 'Gorbachev: Heaven' (2019), which explores his life and legacy, along with various documentaries discussing his reforms and impact on global politics.

Q: What is Gorbachev's legacy in modern politics?

Gorbachev's legacy is characterized by his role in promoting peace, dialogue, and reform, influencing political leaders and movements worldwide towards collaborative approaches.

Known for

The Abyss (1989)

IMDb 7.5 / 10

1989 / Adventure, Drama / 140 min

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds...

Zero Days (2016)

IMDb 7.7 / 10

2016 / Documentary / 113mins

An example of volumetric filmmaking (real world imagery rendered into a 3D space) in this case showcasing the testimony of an NSA whistleblower.

Name

Mikhail Gorbachev

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

2 March 1931, Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai, Russia

Spouses

Raisa Gorbachev (1953–1999)

Children

1 daughter, Irina Virganskaya

Parents

Alexei Gorbachev, Maria Gorbachev

Estimated Net Worth

10 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	TV Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses,...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2025	Movie JFK Assassination: A New Perspective With the release of new documents in 2025, this gripping exploration revisits the JFK assassination, featuring expert insights and theories...	Self - Former General Secretary CCCP	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2025	Movie AUM: The Cult at the End of the World The shocking story of Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that unleashed a deadly nerve gas in Tokyo’s subway system in...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2024	TV Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? No easy answers? Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to conflicts from Rwanda to Iraq. Faced...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2024	TV Traitors A documentary series that explores who brought Vladimir Putin to power, and why. It meticulously reconstructs the sequence of events...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2024	Movie Gorbacheva Raisa Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher. Their names have been in the same row for a long time....	Unknown character	Not rated
2024	TV Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2023	TV Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator In-depth documentary mini-series presenting the rise, rule and fall of communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and the way he shaped...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2023	Movie The Man Who Challenged Putin The 23rd June 2023. The Russo-Ukrainian war rages on. In an unexpected turn of events, the Wagner Group chief, Yevgeny...	Self	Not rated
2023	Movie In the Grip of Gazprom The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2023	TV Three Wars	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2022	TV Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2022	Movie Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes Thirty-six years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine, newly uncovered archival footage and recorded interviews with those...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2021	Movie Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2021	Movie Gorbachev. Heaven An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost,...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2021	Movie The Art of Dissent "The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led...	Self - Subject (archive footage)	Not rated
2021	Movie Stasi: A State Against Its People After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2021	TV Hullu vuosi 1991 In 1991, the great power the Soviet Union split and ceased to exist. In the same year, Finland's economy plummeted...	Self	Not rated
2021	Movie Sakharov. Two Lives Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	Movie Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and sanitary disaster that made Pripiat...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2020	Movie The Long Breakup Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	TV First Ladies Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries on the lives of America's most iconic First Ladies...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2020	Movie My Favorite War Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie The Way I See It Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2020	TV History 101 Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2020	Movie Frenemies: Putin and Trump Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2020	Movie Stalin and the Katyn Massacre The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	Movie 30 Years of Democracy Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2019	Movie Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2019	Movie Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2019	Movie Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonstrations were violently and...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2019	Movie The Man Who Defied Beijing A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2019	Movie Meeting Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2018	Movie Lusia in Wonderland How Lyusia Stein - a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow - went to work for Ksenia...	Self	Not rated
2018	Movie Putin's Witnesses Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president of the...	Self - Politician (archive footage)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2018	Movie Our Africa 1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than...	Self	Not rated
2017	Movie The Arrow of Time President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.	Self	Not rated
2017	Movie À la recherche de... Pierre Richard Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.	Self - Soviet and Russian statesman (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2017	Movie Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie How to Stage a Coup A guide to human history through its most audacious power grabs. From Julius Caesar to Napoleon; from Mussolini to the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	TV Код доступа	Self	Not rated
2017	Movie Free to Rock Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite...	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie Era Of Dance The film tells a story about the latest musical revolution in recent history – the early days of the rave...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	TV Legends of Cinema	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2016	TV Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2016	Movie Zero Days Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2015	Movie Those Who Dare When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania....	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2015	Movie The Russian Woodpecker As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark...	Former President Russia (archive footage)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2015	Movie Laissez-faire A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2014	Movie Quando c'era Berlinguer	Unknown character	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2012	TV Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2012	Movie Palme Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm....	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2012	Movie 41 An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende Erich Honecker ruled the GDR for 18 years. His fall in 1989 heralded the downfall of the state that had...	Self	Not rated
2011	Movie The Last Days of the USSR From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev,...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2011	Movie A Bitter Taste of Freedom In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2011	Movie He Came to Give Us Freedom Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of...	Unknown character	Not rated
2010	Movie The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2009	Movie Disco and Atomic War A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2009	Movie Here to Stay Urban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes of deep anxiety. Here to stay...	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	Movie Hype: The Obama Effect Delving beneath the hype of Barack Obama's historic bid for the U.S. presidency, this documentary takes a close look at...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2008	Movie The Soviet Story “The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2008	TV Album Across three decades – the 1970s to the turn of the millennium – the lives of three boys – Lars...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2007	Movie The 11th Hour A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring...	Self	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	Movie The Battle of Chernobyl On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	Movie Hammer & Tickle Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2006	Movie Freedom's Fury A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2006	Movie Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! After years of requests, Nardwuar the Human Serviette has finally entered the digital age with a compilation of over 60...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2006	Movie The Collapse of The Soviet Union The film is using episodes filmed mainly at the Kremlin, Soviet Union's headquarters which enable to have a glance to...	Self	Not rated
2004	TV Zero Hour Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by...	Self (archival footage)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2004	Movie Disaster at Chernobyl The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	TV Days That Shook the World Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003....	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde	Unknown character	Not rated
2002	TV The School for Scandal A talk show	Unknown character	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2002	Movie Guts and Glory Exploration of Rambo as a cultural icon and essential spirit of the Reagan era. Featuring Sylvester Stallone, cultural critics Susan...	Self (archive)	Not rated
1999	TV maybrit illner Political talk show on current topics presented by Maybrit Illner.	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1999	Movie Die Sekretäre The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1999	TV Faith of the Century: A History of Communism Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1999	TV Beckmann Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1999	Movie The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files On Nov. 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The mystery surrounding this history-changing...	Self	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1999	Movie When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World A detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down,...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	TV Ein Herz für Kinder	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1998	Movie Reagan In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	TV The Johannes B. Kerner Show	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1997	TV HARDtalk In-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all walks of life talk about...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1996	Movie Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1995	Movie Satans mördare A description of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme's political work and the murder of him on Sveavägen in Stockholm on...	Self	Not rated
1995	Movie Coup-2: Yet Another Uprising or the Shadow of Civil War Why do these events, as they recede into the past, attract increasing interest? Probably because, as time goes on, it...	Unknown character	Not rated
1995	TV Goldene Henne	Self	Not rated
1994	Movie But... Seriously A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1993	Movie Faraway, So Close! A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in...	Mikhail Gorbachev	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1992	Movie New Hyperion or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood From the behavior, discourse, and appearance of individual actors, Vachek composes, in the form of a mosaic, a broad and...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1991	Movie Desert Storm: The War Begins An historic presentation by CNN documenting the lead up to and the beginning of the war in Iraq.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1991	Movie Latest News About Doomsday A crazy documentary about the dawn of occult movements related to the expectation of the end of the world, after...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1991	TV The Second Russian Revolution The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika.	Self	Not rated
1991	Movie Ceausescu: Behind the Myth Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 3.0 / 10
1991	TV DAS! Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates...	Self	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1990	Movie Streng vertraulich oder Die innere Verfassung Multilayered documentary about the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR: Half a hundred buildings, a thousand...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
1990	Movie Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and...	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1989	Movie The Abyss A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks....	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1989	Movie Day of Revelation About the leaders and the nature of the activities of informal groups in Moscow: “Democratic Union” and “People’s Front”.	Unknown character	Not rated
1988	Movie Bukharin and the Terror This documentary on Bukharin was made shortly after his rehabilitation in the USSR under Gorbachev in 1988. Contributors: Fitzroy Maclean...	Unknown character	Not rated
1988	Movie Children of the 20th Congress In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties.	(archive footage)	Not rated
1987	Movie Der springende Punkt Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential...	Unknown character	Not rated
1984	Movie Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1982	TV Menschen	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Mikhail Gorbachev: A Man Who Changed the World In an unforgettable, candid interview, Gorbachev tells of his long rise to power and reflects on the sweeping changes his...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10

JFK Assassination: A New Perspective

2025 / TMDB 10.0

AUM: The Cult at the End of the World

2025 / TMDB 6.0

Gorbacheva

2024

In the Grip of Gazprom

2023 / TMDB 8.0

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

2022 / TMDB 7.3

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

2021 / TMDB 7.7

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Has Mikhail Gorbachev won any awards?

What was Mikhail Gorbachev's first major political role?

What are some of Gorbachev's most significant contributions?

What is known about Gorbachev's personal life?

What is Mikhail Gorbachev's estimated net worth?

What are some notable films or documentaries featuring Gorbachev?

What is Gorbachev's legacy in modern politics?